Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
I spent 2 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, where are you drawing this 2 days crap from?
You gave two examples:
Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
I met a Syrian Refugee in Munich, and he said Islam turns good people bad, I was also downtown Paris on 11/13/16. So as you can see, we have different experiences.
That comes across as two separate occasions – neither of which hinted at military service. You didn't mention your military service, and I'm not one for keeping up with people's life details so I didn't know.
Do you have anything else to say to my post other than correcting me on your experience with Muslims? Having been in the military and served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, was every Muslim civilian that you met aggressive and/or hostile?
Originally posted by It's xyz!
Islam in general, is not good for society, but terrorism is worse. You can't equate these two issues. Pulling out of Iraq for political reasons and funding Syrian Rebels has caused a huge shitty situation and the area needs severe occupation, imo. We agree that the mass immigration crisis caused rape and terrorism, we agree stricter immigration is good. This isn't even a Muslim issue.British Muslims should and do speak up. The issue is not racist jokes. The issue is the media portraying white people as ignorant thick racists and brown people as violent barbarians. I find leavers thinking Brexit would get rid of Pakistanis and remainers hating lower class white people. But this is just media hype and TV watchers jumping on bandwagons. Both sides were shit, but I'm glad the EU aren't deciding our laws. That was my main issue.
See xyz, when you actually lay down your opinions without resorting to xenophobic rhetoric, you actually make some sense. You should do it more often.
I disagree that the Middle East needs occupation, but I get where you are coming from. I just feel that if we occupied the Middle East again it'd just incite more hatred towards the West. But the West is already hated by Islam extremists, so what can we do? It's a tough call, one I'm not adequately informed to make. And yeah, the media has completely reduced the Brexit debate to black and white, another of my main issues with how most people see and talk about things: it's all one or the other, liberal or conservative, pro-immigration or anti-immigration, etc. etc., and that just isn't how the world works. We need to make sure that we approach each situation from a rational and as non-biased point of view as is possible. I think if more people did that, there'd be less tension and vitriol in our society.